‘Everybody knows somebody’: This state is a laboratory for the future of Alzheimer’s in America

North Dakota’s sparse geography has long made it a natural frontier: Pioneers here pushed the boundaries of westward expansion, then agriculture, and recently domestic oil drilling. Now the state finds itself on the leading edge of a new boom that it never would have chosen: Alzheimer’s disease. Cases are climbing across the United States, and especially…

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